Raspbian Linux

Raspian is a special customized version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi. By default, this image includes a graphical user interface and some tools like media players and web browers. For some use cases (e.g. servers) this might be not needed. It’s also a security breach if you run a server.

I want to use a Raspberry Pi as Icinga server – therefore I don’t need a graphical user interface.

If you’re too lazy to find out which packages are not required you might use the following commands to delete optional (graphical) tools packages: